Pronouncements from the King of Gnomes!

Month: August 2017

There are a lot of gnome minions in Hearthstone, 51 as of Frozen Throne. In the 6 expansions that have released some patterns have emerged. Gnomes primarily put cards in your hand, either directly like the Gnomish Inventor, or indirectly like Wilford Fizzlebang.

This seems to be the niche gnomes fill in Hearthstone as a whole. I’m kinda sad that Northshire Cleric is not a gnome card since it is probably the most common Draw card used. 13 of the 51 Gnomes in the game put or, facilitate putting, cards in your hand. In fact the “Spare Parts” mechanic added in the Goblins vs Gnomes expansion is NOT found on any of the goblin cards in that set. This reinforces the gnome roll in gaining cards. I am most impressed with new Gnomeferatu card, which basically has you draw a card from your opponent’s deck and then discard it. It’s exactly what you would expect from a gnome parasite.

Garrosh is imminent! Back when he was announced, there were grumblings on Twitter from people saying “Oh no, not another orc. Enough orcs already!” It is something that I myself was guilty of. There were also other voices, people who had been waiting on Garrosh for a LONG time.

The list below is from a video that was put up in 2011. Now, if you are a player that is really excited about any of the names circled in red, you’ve been waiting for 6 years for the hero they teased to be released. That sucks. It would have been far better if none of these heroes had been teased. Each one being a complete surprise.

Every hero announcement, no matter how cool it is, is immediately deflated by the fact that it’s not the one hero you wanted. And while that’s a natural part of the cycle for Heroes of the Storm. It extra sucks when they’ve teased the hero you want and they never seem to come.

It’s weird because when a hero from a franchise I don’t play get’s announced I’m indifferent, but when a hero from ‘my’ game gets released, that is when I get disappointed. I know it’s a game, and more heroes are always coming. I love HotS and enjoy playing it with the characters that are there, (Leper Chromie FTW).

Oh well, the genie is out of the bottle now. I need to go update the list now. Put a Check mark on Garrosh and I guess on Ghost Kerrigan as well?

*Mekkatorque is in the category of heroes I am discussing, but the reasoning applies to all of them.

Everyone enjoyed the Dance Studio! We gnomes have been hard at work for YEARS creating lights strong enough for all the races of Azeroth to dance on. It was NOT easy! But nobody thanked me! I mean, I didn’t build them personally, but they were built by gnomes, and as their King I should get a Thanks, uh, tithe?

Anyway. Everyone was supposed to be face down pass out drunk in Dalaran right now but it got canceled. Oh man… I invested all that money in the hangover remedies. I’m ruined!